167 - How to Design a Presentation — with Ashley Smithers

The Futur with Chris Do

The Futur

Design, Self-improvement, Education, Business, Marketing, Arts

5 • 976 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A great presentation will inspire you. It will leave you feeling excited, energized and most importantly: wanting more. But a bad presentation will put you to sleep. Ashley Smithers specializes in presentation design. She's helped people prepare for TED talks, design important fundraising decks, and even worked with former vice presidents on their presentations. In this clubhouse discussion, Ashley offers five tips to help you step up your pitch game. And Chris matches her. Between the two of them you'll get over ten pro tips and techniques for giving dynamite presentations. From how to structure your deck, to telling a great story, and even what to do with your hands. After listening to this conversation, you'll be equipped to give an engaging and compelling presentation of your own. Sponsored by BetterHelp - https://betterhelp.com/futur Sponsored by Storyblocks - https://storyblocks.com/futur Sponsored by Springboard - https://bit.ly/springboard-the-futur (Promo Code: NYTHEFUTURE1250) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If somebody is staring at the screen trying to figure out what you're saying, then they're not going to be listening to you.
0:04.8	And remember, the slides are a visual aid. You are the presentation. You are performing.
0:10.1	This is performance with visual aids.
0:13.0	And so when you're talking about this one idea per slide,
0:15.5	I have some general guidelines for you here.
0:17.5	The overarching idea is less but better.
0:20.5	Don't try to cram it in, just make it better, design it better.
0:23.4	Strip out everything that's unnecessary to leave what is essential. I'm going to do. Hey everybody. First of all welcome to this room. Hello beautiful people good morning good afternoon good evening.
0:56.6	Today we're doing something a little different a little different today. We're going to be talking about five presentation tips to step up your pitch game.
1:04.8	You got a pitch coming up? You might want to tune into this.
1:08.8	And I got my good friend Ashley, she's here with me, and she's going to bring a whole different
1:14.0	perspective because she's used to working on decks that really deliver at the
1:18.4	highest level like former vice president's kind of level, right?
1:24.0	And big time, big time people.
1:26.5	Yeah.
1:27.5	Big conversations.
1:28.5	Big conversations.
1:29.5	Big huge keynotes.
1:32.1	Yes. But also little keynotes. Yes.
1:33.0	But also little keynotes.
1:35.0	You talk about me?
1:37.0	No, I'm talking about you.
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